New Order for Drillmec in the Land of Fire
Last April, Drillmec signed a contract with SOCAR-AQS for the supply of an automatic hydraulic model HH300 off-shore. SOCAR-AQS LLC was established in 2007 between State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (51%) and Absheron Drilling Company (49%). SOCAR-AQS LLC is a fast growing, integrated drilling and services provider that is expanding its activities both in Azerbaijan and internationally. SOCAR-AQS LLC is committed to developing as a world-class modern drilling entity adhering to the highest HSE and technological standards of international oil industry.
SOCAR-AQS is currently performing drilling works with three rigs located on two stationary platforms on Shallow Water Gunashli field and it is preparing for drilling on Umid and Western Absheron fields. Drillmec HH300 will operate in West Absheron field owned by Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR’s Absheronneft Oil and Gas Production Department.
This HH300 is the first rig of its kind to be destined to the off-shore sector but 3 more Drillmec rigs are already present on the Caspian Sea in the Kazakh and Russian areas. The rig was also selected by the customer due to its specific characteristics that are well suited to offshore drilling: reduced footprint, environmental friendly, load reduction, reduced risk exposure for the rig crew, high automation.
The contract includes the supply of drilling rig, accessories and equipment and the rig was specifically designed to meet the needs of off-shore drilling by replacing the trailer with a structure interface between the rig and the platform and by adapting the rig layout to the confined space of the platform.
The rig was mainly manufactured in Piacenza factory and a valuable contribution has also been provided by our factory in Gomel where the Mud System was manufactured in due time.
HH300 is scheduled for delivery in October 2014; it took 6 months for the development of engineering, production and testing of the system.
This contract is for Drillmec the opening of a new market of great interest when considering the wealth of energy sources and the wide availability of investment.
GM of SOCAR AQS Mr. Ramin Isayev, Mr. Fouad Noonoo Drillmec representative for Azerbaijan and Diego Ferrandes, Area Manager with Drillmec team celebrate the signing of the contact in Baku
